At first glance, MAGA’s fear of immigrants and the rest of America’s fear of data centers have many similarities, with each reflecting insecurities about one’s place in a changing economy. But while the first fear tells natives that their place is valuable, the second assumes that it will soon be worth nothing.
NEW YORK—Few ideas have traveled as far as the Great Replacement, which holds that native populations are being deliberately supplanted by immigrants. Coined in France by the writer Renaud Camus, it has furnished the grammar for the advance of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, Viktor Orbán’s long reign in Hungary, the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, and Donald Trump’s mass-deportation program in the United States. It has also been cited by mass murderers in Christchurch, El Paso, Hanau, and Buffalo.
NEW YORK—Few ideas have traveled as far as the Great Replacement, which holds that native populations are being deliberately supplanted by immigrants. Coined in France by the writer Renaud Camus, it has furnished the grammar for the advance of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, Viktor Orbán’s long reign in Hungary, the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, and Donald Trump’s mass-deportation program in the United States. It has also been cited by mass murderers in Christchurch, El Paso, Hanau, and Buffalo.